Beethoven, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
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The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.
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The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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